FIFTH WORKSHOP ON CASE STUDIES IN BAYESIAN STATISTICS 

                      September 24-25, 1999 
            Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

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                    * SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT *
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The Fifth Workshop on Case Studies of Bayesian Statistics will take
place on September 24th and 25th 1999 at Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA. The Workshop will feature in-depth presentations and
discussions of substantial applications of Bayesian statistics to
problems in science and technology, and poster presentations of
contributed papers on applied Bayesian work.  In conjunction with the
workshop, the Department of Statistics' Fifth Morris H DeGroot
memorial lecture will be delivered by Persi Diaconis.
 
Contributed poster abstracts are due August 1, 1999.  After a
refereeing process, selected contributed papers will be published,
together with the major case studies, in the fifth volume of Case
Studies in Bayesian Statistics. Abstracts should be submitted to Bayes
Workshop, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, or by e-mail: bayes@stat.cmu.edu.

              FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE SEE
                  www.stat.cmu.edu/bayesworkshop


The following three  major case studies will be presented and discussed:

* Bayesian Analysis of the New York School Choice Scholarships
  Program: A Randomized Experiment with Noncompliance and Missing Data
 
   John Barnard, Constantine Frangakis, Jennifer L. Hill, Paul Peterson,
   and Donald B. Rubin. 

* Bayesian Designs for Dose-Ranging Drug Trials
 
   Donald A. Berry, Peter Mueller, Andy P. Grieve, Michael Smith, Tom
   Parke, Richard Blazek, Neil Mitchard, Chris Brearley, and Michael Krams
 
* Modeling the Impact of Traffic-Related Air Pollution on Childhood
  Respiratory Illness

   Nicky Best, Samantha Cockings, Paul Elliott, Katja Ickstadt, and
   Robert Wolpert  

The organizing committee of the Fifth Workshop includes Brad Carlin,
Alicia Carriquiry,  Constantine Gatsonis, Andrew Gelman, Rob Kass, Isa
Verdinelli, and Mike West.